Great American Victory Report Pt. 3: lol “Your Game” okay buddy

The Olympics are, of course, all about athletic competition, pushing to be the best, and coming together as a global community to celebrate peace and goodwill. But let’s be honest here, it’s also about winners and losers. Canada may have a couple gold medals now but I think it’s time we took a look at the real winner so far: America.

As far as I know, I’m the only American (read also: non-loser) who writes for the various Nations, and that’s why I have taken it upon myself to come here and remind you that the United States has and will continue to dominate "Your Olympics."

Here are five more very specific reasons why.

1. I told ya so.

Look, I mean, I get it. Look at that roster you guys brought to the Olympics for hockey, which you laughably call, "Your sport." There’s not one Oiler on it. So how could you not delude yourselves into thinking you were destined for some amount of success? Well, I forgive you. Not unconditionally of course. I will first be seeking apologies from the following Oilers/Flames Nation commenters, who foolishly predicted a Canadian win.

Phil, who noted, "And besides, all that really matters is the USA will get embarrassed in a few days by the absolutely dominant Canadian squad in mens hockey. Fools are gonna get crushed." RAFALSKI’D

GSC, who blabbed, "I just can’t stand to see this kind of ethnocentric behavior. There’s no reason for it, especially when it looks like USA Hockey will be an afterthought once more in Vancouver." INCORRECT

GSC (again), who chattered, "…and the strong possibility that Hockey Canada brings home another gold." DISAPPOINTED

Fellow Flames Nation contributor RossCreek, who blathered, "Sorry pal, but the USA battling for a bronze in men’s hockey will be as good as it gets for you. Meanwhile, we up here in igloo-land will cherish our GOLD forever." DISCREDITED

Ambassador humantorch, who yammered, "Also, I hope your hockey team enjoys getting the everloving snot beat out of it in the only Winter Olympic sport that matters. Say hi to 5th place for us!" SIXTH PLACED

I wonder what happened. I mean, last I saw the United States had creamed a bunch of future sod farmers in the World Junior title game and that was, I was led to believe, a major international ice hockey competition, right up until you lost it. I guess the same is now true of the Olympics. But hey, chin up, Canada. You only have to get through the Russians and Finns to compete for a medal. Over in the winners’ bracket, I think the US is playing like South Africa or something. It’s tough to tell between all these countries we could crush like bugs with our omnipotent military or, if they’d prefer, American Hero Ryan Kesler.

2. Even Bodie Miller can defeat the world.

Last time we dominated participated in the Winter Olympics, Bode Miller was made out to be the next Michael Jordan or, more appropriately, Ryan Miller of competitive skiing. And he went home without a medal or something like that I can’t remember. The point is he embarrassed this country so badly that I secretly began to suspect he was a naturalized Canadian that had come to this wonderful country of mine in hopes of perhaps scrubbing off some of the failure stench with which all Canadian children are born, kind of like Original Sin but only for natives of the crummiest North American country (at least Mexico gave us the burrito, y’know?).

But nope, it turns out Bode Miller is an American after all. How else could you explain his gold in the men’s supercombined, silver in the super-G, and bronze in the downhill? Answer: you couldn’t. That’s winner material right there, and thus immediately disproves my previous theories that he could have come from any country but the Good Ol’ US of A.

3. You idiots get worked up over a gold in the skeleton.

Okay, okay. Congratulations to you, Canada. You won gold in the "sledding" event. I could have too if my mom hadn’t called me in for supper when it started getting dark back in the days I was still in fourth grade.

But for real, you guys are gonna dominate at the Summer Games when they introduce hopscotch.

4. Our sissiest man could kill the strongest Canadian with his bare hands.

Evan Lysachek wasn’t the favorite to win gold in men’s figure skating. I’m not sure why, though. He clowned out some punkass Russian guy who came out of retirement just to lose to America like it was 1991 all over again. The Olympics are, of course, that wonderful time when the world gets together to act like it understands, ahem, "sports" in which it has no interest and of which it has no knowledge. Case in point: figure skating. If you’re anything like me (I know, it’s hopelessly optimistic for you to compare yourselves to a real live American, but see if you can wrap your head around it), you don’t know squat about such a stupid event.

But even I knew that Lysachek slaughtered in this one. Women in the audience were actually fainting from how sexually aroused they were by his breathtaking performance, and several Canadian men reportedly committed suicide because they knew they could never aspire to this level of manliness. Imagine how rough it would have been for the average Canadian excuse for a boy in any school from Halifax to Nanaimo if Evan Lysachek walked in there lookin’ for lunch money. Then keep in mind that this is the kind of kid Ryan Callahan was shoving into lockers every day of his high school life.

5. It is and will forever be about medal count.

Let’s have another look at the medal table. I remember last Thursday the US had 15 medals to, of course, lead the entire world as we so richly deserve. So what’s it looking like a couple days later? Oh that’s funny. America is still on top.

And look at all these medals! Twenty-freaking-four of them. The next closest country is Germany. With 18. After that is Norway with 12. Then South Korea and Canada with nine each. South goddamn Korea? Weren’t you Canadians supposed to "own the podium" or whatever? What happened with that? Hell, the US has more BRONZE medals than you guys do total.

I think it’s time you guys just gave up, eh? I’m sure Seattle would be happy to host the remaining week of the games just to give you guys a break so you can think about the many, many ways in which you’ve blown it.

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And the part about half the country having no health insurance, the other half functionally illiterate, drive by shootings in nice areas, walk by shootings in the rough ones, oh, and don't forget, the azzholes who for some reason troll on Canadian sites to piss us all off.

Well, at least you are one of the 9 americans who know Canada is not one of the 50 states, but that being said, it doesn't make you any less of a douchebag.

Wanye, why is this waste of skin allowed to post on your site? I am leaving until this loser is off. Say goodbye to my 15 hits a day, and if any of you advertisers are reading this, I will make a point of not buying from any of you until Wanye stops allowing the posting of this offensive garbage.

Why is TLP writing articles for these sites again? They largely come across as poorly written tripe at the best of times.

This series of articles is in poor taste and is possibly going to alieniate some long time visitors. It certain showcases the worst aspects of american (lower class letter for low class article) pride.

Wow, TLP, way to rehash the same post over and over. Are you sure you're the only American "writer"? They should just pay once for the three since you're repeating the same non-funny stuff again. And again. And yes I have a sense of humour but the only funny part about reading it is when I picture what you look like and giggle.

Since you're the only American writer, we can crown you the Sarah Palin of Nation Bloggers, hot air, not actually making a point JUST TALKING LOUDER CUZ THAT MAKES YOU SMARTER, shouting U-S-A when Hacksaw Jim Duggan tells you to. We'll just take this third posting to be your "Mission Accomplished" photo George W. Bush took on that battleship when you conquered Iraq…oh wait, you didn't yet…oops.

Wow a bunch of whiney hosers in here. Lighten up people, It's a fricken joke. Yes the Oilers suck so we're in a bad mood and yes we are celebrating a freaking Ice Dance Gold Medal instead of a trouncing of the USA in hockey, but for Peter Foresberg's sake! Lighten the eff up guys.

TLP you both suck and blow and our gold medal will be thrice as sweet as we kick everyones ass to get there. We lost a game so we could kick more ass… yeah thats right….

Why is it when yappy American writes an in your face article it's deemed funny yet when some of our own take their own pot shots it's considered being whiny….maybe we are just being funny too?

Anyway here's something to hang your hat on. Canada now has 5 gold medals to the mighty American's 7 and when it comes right down to it, isn't it really more about wins. I mean 2nd and 3rd is nice but the goal is number one not 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 10th or whatever. I mean if we want to get technical it was reported yesterday that Canada is close to neck and neck in top 5 finishes to the TLP stated vastly superior Yanks.

But when it comes to actually winning an event the count currently stands at 7 – 5 for the overpowering, mighty, unbeatable, Yanks.

Ha! I was just gonna leave a comment on here calling TLP a fag but after reading all the replies I will digress. In fact, I will effectively give out a 'props' to TLP for pissing so many people off. And if the advertisers are reading, for every hit esa tikkanen and others have threatened to withold I'm going to make up for in double. I have nothing to do all day, and I'm at work so looking busy is a plus. Keep it up TLP, you american faggot.

Ha! I was just gonna leave a comment on here calling TLP a [something stupid] but after reading all the replies I digress. In fact, I will effectively give out a 'props' to TLP for pissing so many people off. And if the advertisers are reading, for every hit esa tikkanen and others have threatened to withold I'm going to make up for in double. I have nothing to do all day, and I'm at work so looking busy is a plus. Keep it up TLP, you american [idiot].

I was just thinking…what if the unexpected happens? Like what happened to Salo before? Say we are in a tight game…tied with Germany in the third and Bobby Lou takes a shot of the grill and it goes in the net for a loss?

From a Canadian fan that would suck. From an Oilers fan I hope that ruins Bobby's psyche for the NHL.

So theoretically then, the entire continent of Africa could hypothetically put together a team (based on population of 1,000,000,000) that should kick everyone's arse, right? Right? WRONG!

I highly doubt the USA has 10x the population to draw from for the winter Olympics, so to say that they should win 10x as many medals is inaccurate, imo (do you really think States like Mississipi, Alabama, Louisianna, New Mexico, etc have a lot to offer?). BUT, they likely have say 5x (random arbitrary number) the population to actually draw from, so they should have say 5x (random arbitrary number) the medals.

Actually read my post please before posting something like this….no not theoretically at all does your statement hold water

I talked of the US being a have nation…a nation with money that treats women on the same scale that they treat men…I also mentioned that the countries we were debating about were countries that competed in certain events based on climate and we also talked about funding…

To throw out a continent full of nations that are clearly not have nations and don't treat women on the same scale as a US and Canada do is assinine and completely irrelevant..

I'm also not the one to say that the US should have 10X the medals than Canada because it's not just a competition between Canada and the US…if you haven't noticed, there are many other nations involved which would affect the numbers…I also acknowledged that the US probably doesn't have 10X the number of people to draw athletes from for Olympic sports when I brought up Texas but they sure as hell do have many more to draw from than we do.

I was going to just leave it alone but seeing as how you brought it up again….Banger mentioned that if the US had 10X the population why don't they have 10X the number of athletes at the games…fact is you're only allowed so many competitors in each event so each country has to have their own competitions to decide who gets to go and who doesn't get to go. If the US could send more athletes I'm sure they would.

Lastly…if the competition was between just Canada and the US in all the events and the US could send all of their athletes and we could send all of ours I would be willing to suggest that they would likely have a much higher percentage of medals than we do….luckily we have other nations in the games who take some of those spots.

Whoa… chill, man. When I clicked on this page, the last comment was "#93 cableguy February 23 2010, 09:34AM". After reading through all the comments I had missed, I had a reaction to your discussion with Banger, but I decided to respond to the above comment first. When I did, a whole new set of comments popped up, and you're right, I didn't read yours because I jumped to the bottom to write mine (without checking to see if you had made additional comments in the seven that I missed). I hereby apologize 😉

I just want to point out that telling people who have threatened to leave that they are childish is counter productive since they have vowed not to return to this site anyways, so how are they going to argue or even read your point? Man I'm bored at work today.

Naw, it didn't miss it's mark. I think most of us got the point of the article but those 'marks' who didn't see in as a joke got their panties in a twist which made it even funnier. Remember, those who laugh last, think slowest.

I'm Canadian and I can't wait for 'the Great American Victory Report Pt. 4:' to see who is the first poster to miss the point and call it classess.

Definition of "smack": offensive speech about another person.
Just what I need to make my life happier. Visit ON to get offended.
Being offended by TLP's offensiveness is not whining. I'd like to take TLP behind the barn and smack him.

Forgive me for not finding it funny when TLP crap's on our heads and half the people play it off as a big joke. Joke or not, I find comments like "….scrubbing off some of the failure stench with which all Canadian children are born, kind of like Original Sin but only for natives of the crummiest North American country" to be in poor taste for a canadian sports website. Is this honestly needed here?? I get that America has to be better than everyone at everything to keep their ego's in check but to see it on ON caught me a little off guard.

Actually this was the first one I read of the three "America is the best everthing" articles. I had to look back at the others to see if they were this stupid. Don't worry, I never will or never have felt inferior to the USA. I know he's trying to be funny, I just found it odd to see all this on ON 3 times.

This whole debate reminds me a little of the controversy when the South Park movie was released, featuring "Blame Canada". Some were up-in-arms declaring it un-funny, unnecessary and distasteful when in fact the entire message exploits and makes fun of the outrageous stereotypes that (unfortunately) still exist in some segments of the population. While Wanye (and the vast majority of readers) have played along, knowing that this is a piece of satire, I truly hope that the humour/fun/harmless nature of the article is not lost….. but on that note: ~does anyone else blame the Canada loss on a distinct lack of Oilers?~